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PatSocs are usually the next biggest suckers in the room if you've run your course with the BreadTube audience, so not surprising.

If only he had realized that that was most contemporary continental philosophy outside of maybe Wittgenstein.

This kind of stuff was always my issue with most of the genre of 'post-modern' or 'meta-fiction'. It doesn't seem to have a real respect for traditional fiction itself as a complex medium to explore the human condition, the author being so detached that they can only think to use the medium to describe the human condition within fiction. Essentially creating a novel to do the job of the critic and theorist.

While interesting, it has always struck me as not actually that inventive, as this kind of metacriticism has been part and parcel of writing forever, even Aeacylus would include characters that were essentially cheap shots and criticisms of the state of plays and city life.

That doesn't mean the portrayal of the medium of something like House of Leaves isn't interesting, just that it probably isn't as deep as it has pretense towards being.

Why would our National Public Radio broadcast propaganda?

For me the strange thing is how almost exactly the same everything has been in the U.S. barring basically 1935-1949 just with different flavors of aesthetic bullshit. You want Eastern culture obsessives? They are in every generation of Americans. Shit-posters? Every generation. All that changes is what exactly is 'normalized behavior' in certain areas.

Nothing changes and time appears to be a flat circle.

I'm being hyperbolic, but the idea that decades have truly distinct flavors of culture is an absolutely crazy opinion to have.

It's not that Cuba 'get's caught between great power struggles', they understand that their countries history is one long anti-colonial struggle, and you either figure out how to play ball, or you will soon find yourself as the bases.

Just a reminder, in this 'heroic rescue', they not only dressed up as Palestinian civilians, they also shot and killed every single person (including women and children) they encountered and bombed the surrounding blocks, also killing 3 other hostages. The death count as of this moment is as low as 100 and as high as 274, most of them children.

It's so interesting how when you just blatantly ignore context, you can paint an absolutely, wholely unnecessary, disastrous, slaughterhouse operation as 'heroic'

They want an easy solution that doesn't actually require massive political and social upheavals that could potentially lead humanity to the brink of nuclear armageddon. People want the revolution to be painless, bur we know from experience it will not be.

It's not so much brainworms as wishful thinking.

We are already at 'post-scarcity'. What we are suffering from is a distribution and management issue. We let the 'free market' (a.k.a. trillions of dollars of fruitless, wasted, advertising spending) dictate our distribution, and ah damn, it looks like areas that don't have as much money don't spend as much money, better not increase investment there, unless it is for a product that richer people can buy.

Robots nor AI, nor any technology can solve this fundamental contradiction that exists within the capitalist political-economy, and it will stifle productive local growth, and kill equitable distribution of resources world-wide until it is solved.

I mean, if you listen to any interviews with him, he basically does bumble through life, three stooges style, thinking that every little article he writes has a massive impact on world politics. He is the idealized liberal journalist, with absolutely no material analysis at all affecting his writings, at most he will do systems analysis. He really is just on the side of 'who will give me good sources to write my articles.'

She is an activist NGO lobbyist, who seems to focus on abolition of prison for victims of abuse that kill or hurt their abusers. Mostly she seems to publish books and participate in education efforts.

I'm sure that she has been called 'performative' by newer, more radicalized, people in the prison abolition movement, who may or may not be extremely online. If this criticism of her is fair or in bad faith, idk, I don't know enough about her or her organization. There is 'performance' in writing or education, but it is more about whether this 'performance' benefits her more than the people she is trying to help.

For example, I have done volunteer work for several 'charity' organizations that spend all of their time and money polling the community about 'what do you think should be done in the community', but never actually get around to actually doing anything for the community. While it isn't on the surface 'performative', it becomes 'performative' with the lack of funds to follow-up those polls, and the fact that round after round of these polls seem to be done with no real coordination between groups with similar interests. The same could be said for this organization, but I don't know enough about them.

Whatever has happened, true or not, online or not, has clearly melted her brain.

I get what you are saying, but your confusion comes from a misinterpretation of theory. They can make 'profit' without your labor, them holding land and speculative value assets can technically generate 'profit' for them if the market is scarce in those resources and demand is high, as they go up in valuation. What they cannot get from you is socially-productive labor, a.k.a. the labor that recreates society in such a way that speculative values can be actualized. However the problem is that the market for socially-productive labor 'for the capitalist' is satisfied by the labor market, they are always trying to shear the sheep, not kill it. The issue that we run into is that eventually the most profitable thing to do is only invest in finite goods, and all else is left to the wayside to rot and fester until those nessecery goods and services become commodities as well.